The creative life of our little family

Making Storm Bangles

Penguin absolutely loves the weather. His stories are made up of lightening and tornadoes! So, inspired by the beautiful handmade bracelets in Michelle Powell’s book Paper Craft book, we set out to create some storm bangles. I thought Penguin would love to wear them while he acted out his stories. I feel it’s great to encourage imaginative play. So let’s see what happened!

I first made cardboard tubes from old cereal packets (toilet rolls would have been a bit too small for little wrists!)

Then with some help from Little Missy we covered round them in strips of newspaper using wall paper paste. We wanted them to be really strong so they could cope with lots of play.

I painted the background colour in a rich blue using acrylic paint and then got to work on the main design.

I realistically could fit three different types of weather on each bangle. So as Penguin has two arms, here’s what I came up with.

Tornado, Sunshine, Rainbow, Snow, Rain and Lightening.

I was super pleased with the result and excited watching Penguins imagination come to life!

Where does your little ones imagination take you? Out into space? Hunting for Dragons? To the next Rabbit Party?

I love this so much! We are currently doing weather crafts to teach my three year old about different types of weather. You could get them to chose which bangle matches the weather outside! Fantastic idea #howtosunday

What a wonderful idea, cereal packets are so versatile and I love how you have strengthened it with the newspaper and glue. the weather decoration gives it a real educational factor too, in fact it has sparked another idea with me for a weather vein. The acrylic paint works so well giving your bangles a beautifully glossy finish. Looks like they were a great hit too. Thank you so much for sharing with me on #Trash2Treasure

These are so sweet! They are a fantastic idea and I love that you thought about his interests and made him something that he’ll love to use in his imaginative play! He clearly is having a great time with them.
Thanks so much for linking up to #HowtoSunday 🙂 xx

Omg first let me say your little one is so darn cute and your family is absolutely beautiful! I love the header picture of you all. Our imagination play takes us back millions of years to the dinosaurs time. #3 loves to play with her brothers dinosaurs and in the prehistoric times her dinosaur name is Noma! She loves driving cars too. #1 (my oldest daughter) loves theater which is some form imaginative play. She is an expert on acting out Frozen. #2 is a man boy and loves to cause chaos and havoc in his war zone with his army men. #4 has not quite figured out imagination as she is only 2 months but if she does I bet it is about her favorite treat “The Golden Milk”.

Your art is very pretty! At first sight I believed the bangles to be coffee mugs ☺. This will make for a great craft activity with my DD. I can’t wait to tell her we will make them and wear them! She’ll be so happy. #FabFridayPost

He looks very proud of his work. You have some great ideas for crafts – well done you for having the patience. I get stuck for ideas and find it difficult with three – toddler is always trying to eat everything!

Hello I’m Sarah. Wife to Leo and Mum to our two little darlings M and Z. This is where I blog about all things creative, our outdoors adventures and travels and our homeschool life. Thanks for stopping by.